FRANCE'S MARION RETIRES

France's Marion Bartoli announces retirement from tennis

A tearful Marion Bartoli said she was in too much pain to continue playing

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France's top female tennis player and the current Wimbledon women's champion, Marion Bartoli, has said she is retiring from professional tennis.

Bartoli, 28, ranked seventh in the world, shocked journalists at a tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, by tearfully announcing she was quitting.

Beset by injuries, she said her hips, Achilles tendon, shoulder and lower back hurt continuously when she played.

She had earlier been knocked out of the competition by Romania's Simona Halep.

"My body was really starting to fall apart and I was able to keep it together, go through the pain - with a lot of pain - throughout this Wimbledon and make it happen," she said at the Western & Southern Open.

"I have pain everywhere after 45 minutes or an hour of play. I've been doing this for so long. Body-wise, I can't do it any more."

Bartoli won her first Grand Slam title by beating Germany's Sabine Lisicki in the Wimbledon final.

She was the runner-up at Wimbledon in 2007.

"You know, everyone will remember my Wimbledon title. No-one will remember the last match I played here," she said.

"It's been a tough decision to take. I don't take this easily."

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SKY CAMERA MAN KILLED

Sky News cameraman Mick Deane shot and killed in Egypt

Mick Deane was a ''lovely, lovely guy'', said Head of Sky News John Ryley

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A veteran Sky News cameraman has been shot and killed while covering the violence in Cairo, the broadcaster has said.

Sixty-one-year-old Mick Deane had worked for Sky for 15 years. He was married with two sons.

Head of Sky News John Ryley paid tribute to an "experienced journalist" and "much-loved colleague".

Earlier Egyptian security forces stormed two protest camps in Cairo, with reports of dozens killed.

A state of emergency has been declared in the country after the army and riot police moved to clear the camps, which were occupied by supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi.

'Brave as a lion'

Deane - who was born in Hannover, Germany - had been part of Sky News' team covering the clashes with Middle East correspondent Sam Kiley. None of the other team members had been hurt, the broadcaster said.

In a statement Mr Ryley said: "Everyone at Sky News is shocked and saddened by Mick's death.

"He was a talented and experienced journalist who had worked with Sky News for many years. The loss of a much-loved colleague will be deeply felt across Sky News."

This is a big blow to the sky news company,brought me to ask this question, if you are a camera man would you face battle and camera on the field after this tragedy

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Mouth bacteria may trigger bowel cancer

Mouth bacteria may trigger bowel cancer

Researchers say they have uncovered how bacteria may set off a chain reaction leading to bowel cancer.

Fusobacteria, commonly found in the mouth, cause overactive immune responses and turn on cancer growth genes, two US studies reveal.

The microbes had been linked with colorectal cancer before but it was not known whether they were directly involved in tumour growth.

The early findings are published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.

In addition to potential new treatments, the discovery could lead to better early diagnosis and prevention, experts hope.

The first study, carried out by Harvard Medical School researchers, showed that fusobacteria were present in high numbers in adenomas - a benign bowel growth that can become cancerous over time.

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Can A Mobile Phone Treat The Eye

Optician's clinic that fits a pocket

Mirriam Waithara had cataracts removed and can now see again

This are Strange but true act,which  a lot of people will not believe but,

Cataracts cloud Mirriam Waithara's world and leave her almost blind.

She lives in a poor and remote part of Kenya where there are no opticians to pick up the problem and she is far from the only one.

The World Health Organization says 285 million people are blind or visually impaired.

The reason is often simple and easy to treat. A pair of glasses or cataract surgery can transform someone's eyesight.

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What we hope is that it will provide eye care for those who are the poorest of the poor”

Dr Andrew BastawrousLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

It is thought that four out of every five cases can be prevented or cured.

Even in the poorest parts of the world there are often eye doctors in the major towns and cities.

However, says Dr Andrew Bastawrous of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, finding patients is often the problem.

The mobile app in action: Scanning the back of the eye

"Patients who need it most will never be able to reach hospital because they're the ones beyond the end of the road, they don't have income to find transport so we needed a way to find them," he told the BBC.

But he thinks he has come up with a solution that is mobile and can be used with very little training.

He is trialling a smartphone app called Peek (Portable Eye Examination Kit) on 5,000 people in Kenya.

It uses the camera to scan the lens of the eye for cataracts.

A shrinking letter which appears on screen is used as a basic vision test.

And it can uses the camera's flash light to illuminate the back of the eye, the retina, to check for disease.

A patient's records are stored on the phone, their exact location is recorded using GPS and the results can be emailed to doctors.

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The phone can be used to look at the retina at the back of the eye and check the health of the optic nerve 

The phone is relatively cheap, costing around £300 rather than using bulky eye examination equipment costing in excess of £100,000.

But does it give the same diagnosis?

The images taken on the phone during the tests in Nakuru, Kenya, are being sent back to Moorfield's Eye Hospital in London.

The pictures are being compared with ones taken with conventional eye examination gear, which has been transported around the region in the back of a van.

The study is not complete, but the research team say the early results are promising and that 1,000 people have received some form of treatment so far.

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If you're a breadwinner and you can't see and you can't work then the whole family is in crisis”

Peter AcklandInternational Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

They include Mirriam Waithara. She had an operation to remove her cataracts and can now see again.

"What we hope is that it will provide eye care for those who are the poorest of the poor," Dr Bastawrous said.

"A lot of the hospitals are able to provide cataract surgery which is the most common cause of blindness, but actually getting the patient to the hospitals is the problem.

"What we can do using this is the technicians can go to the patients to their homes, examine them at their front doors and diagnose them there and then."

The idea is already attracting praise even at an early stage.

Peter Ackland, from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, said: "I think the Peek tool is potentially a huge game changer.

"If you're a breadwinner and you can't see and you can't work then the whole family is in crisis.

"At the moment we simply don't have the trained eye health staff to bring eye care services to the poorest communities. This tool will enable us to do that with relatively untrained people."

The greatest need is in poor countries where around 90% of the world's blind and visually impaired people live.

Mr Ackland believes Africa and northern India will be the places most likely to benefit as ophthalmologists and optomotetrists there are operating at around 30-40% of their capacity.

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MSF closes operations in Somalia

MSF closes operations in Somalia over 'extreme attacks'

MSF said 16 members of its staff had been killed since 1991

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Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is closing all its programmes in Somalia after 22 years working in the war-torn country.

It said in a statement that the decision had been taken because of "extreme attacks on its staff".

It said armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly "support, tolerate or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting of humanitarian aid workers".

More than 1,500 staff have provided a range of services across Somalia.

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The BBC's international development correspondent Mark Doyle says in many parts of Somalia the charity is the only provider of health care ranging from basic medical supplies to major surgery.

The move to close down operations completely is a shock because MSF has always been famous among the major charities as the one that would tolerate most risks to deliver aid, he says.

'Countless lives'

Unni Karunakara, MSF's international president, said leaving Somalia had been one of the hardest decisions MSF had ever had to make.

Since 1991, when Somalia descended into civil war, 16 MSF workers have been killed and there had been dozens of attacks on its staff, ambulances and medical facilities, the charity said.

Last month, two of its Spanish members of staff who were kidnapped from a Kenyan camp for Somali refugees and held captive in Somalia for nearly two years were freed.

"Ultimately, civilians in Somalia will pay the highest cost," Dr Karunakara said in a statement.

"Much of the Somali population has never known the country without war or famine," he said.

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"In choosing to kill, attack, and abduct humanitarian aid workers, these armed groups, and the civilian authorities who tolerate their actions, have sealed the fate of countless lives in Somalia."

Correspondents say this will be a blow to the government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, which has been trying to build on the improving security in the capital, Mogadishu, in the last two years.

Some 18,000 African Union troops are in the country supporting his administration - the first one in more than two decades to be recognised by the US and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Islamist al-Shabab militant group no longer has bases in Mogadishu and has also been pushed out of other cities.

But it remains in control of smaller towns and large swathes of the countryside in central and southern Somalia and continues to launch occasional suicide attacks.

The improving security situation has prompted the return of diaspora Somalis and allowed UN agencies and foreign embassies to reopen.

However, in June, 15 people, including four foreigners, were killed in an assault on a heavily guarded UN office in Mogadishu.

The MSF pull-out will affect all of Somalia, including the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and the breakaway republic of Somaliland.

The group said that Somalia was the only country in which it has operated where it has had to "take the exceptional measure of utilising armed guards".

MSF workers can intervene only if their presence is accepted by all warring parties and communities and only if those groups agree to respect the safety of patients and humanitarian staff.

"This acceptance, always fragile in conflict zones, no longer exists in Somalia today," the MSF statement said.

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Egypt crisis: World leaders condemn crackdown on camps

World condemns Egypt crackdown

A curfew was imposed in Cairo and other cities overnight

There has been strong international condemnation of the deadly crackdown against protest camps in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the events were "deplorable" and "a real blow to reconciliation efforts".

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also criticised the use of force.

The interim government has declared a state of emergency and a curfew was in force across parts of Egypt overnight.

Protesters had been demanding the reinstatement of President Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the military on 3 July.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which backed the protests, said more than 2,000 people died when security forces moved in to clear the two camps - in Nahda Square and near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.

The interim government said 235 civilians had been killed nationwide, as well as 43 police officers. The figures cannot be independently verified.

US Secretary of State John Kerry: "The path towards violence leads only to greater instability"

Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi defended the operation, saying the authorities had to restore security.

But Mr Kerry said it had dealt a "serious blow" to Egypt's political reconciliation efforts.

"This is a pivotal moment for all Egyptians," he said. "The path toward violence leads only to greater instability, economic disaster and suffering."

The office of UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he regretted that the Egyptian authorities had chosen to use force to respond to the demonstrations.

Mr Ban was "well aware that the vast majority of the Egyptian people want their country to go forward peacefully in an Egyptian-led process towards prosperity and democracy," a statement said.

Ms Ashton "strongly condemned" the violence and called for "utmost restraint".

"Only a concerted effort by all Egyptians and the international community might lead the country back on a path to inclusive democracy, and overcome Egypt's challenges," she said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the violence was "not going to solve anything".

"What is required in Egypt is a genuine transition to a genuine democracy. That means compromise from all sides," he said.

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Emergency law in Egypt

• Curfew in Cairo and other provinces from 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) to 06:00 local time daily
• Arrest of suspects deemed dangerous to public order
• Army to help police maintain security
• Limited movement of people and traffic
• Surveillance on messages and monitoring of media

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Wednesday's events were a "very dangerous" escalation of violence and France demanded an "immediate end to the repression".

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office called the violence "a serious blow to the hopes of a return to democracy".

In a televised address, Mr Beblawi expressed regret for the loss of life and said the state of national emergency would be lifted as soon as possible.

The measure imposes a curfew in Cairo and several other provinces between 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) and 06:00.

Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said the police had "dealt professionally" with the protesters, and accused the pro-Morsi protesters of firing birdshot at police.

The protest sites had been infiltrated by armed gangs, he said, and ammunition had been seized from them.

Across the country, members of the Muslim Brotherhood had been arrested and were being interrogated, Mr Ibrahim added.

Leaders detained

Following the violence, Vice-President Mohammed ElBaradei announced his resignation from the interim government.

"I cannot continue in shouldering the responsibility for decisions I do not agree with and I fear their consequences. I cannot shoulder the responsibility for a single drop of blood," he said in a statement.

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Crisis timeline

• 3 Jul: President Mohammed Morsi deposed by military after mass protests
• 4 Jul: Pro-Morsi protesters gather at the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda sites in Cairo
• 27 Jul: More than 70 people killed in clashes with security forces at Rabaa al-Adawiya
• 14 Aug: Security forces move in to clear both camps

• Timeline: Pro-Morsi protests

Reports said the smaller camp in Nahda Square was cleared quickly but clashes raged for several hours around the main camp near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.

Egyptian TV said that by evening the security forces had seized full control of the site, and were allowing protesters there to leave.

But several Muslim Brotherhood leaders were reportedly detained, including Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagi, whose 17-year-old daughter was reportedly killed.

A cameraman working for Sky News, Mick Deane, was also killed, as was a reporter for Gulf News, Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz. She was not working at the time.

Supporters of Mr Morsi - Egypt's first freely elected president - have been staging street protests since he was ousted on 3 July.

He is currently in custody at an undisclosed location, and has been accused of the "premeditated murder of some prisoners, officers and soldiers" during a prison breakout in 2011.

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